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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer They need to support OpenGL 3.x and those Integrated GPUs do not. Hmm.. So there are things in the OS that require OpenGL 3.x? Would that mean even better performance in graphics? One can hope. At th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JDW Many consider evolution to be a fairytale too, requiring as much or more "faith" to believe than Christianity, despite the "evidence" evolutionary proponents often tout. Consider well what I mentioned in my previo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JDW It's perhaps going beyond the scope of this thread, but it's a good question that deserves an answer. With regard to Christianity, the heart is classified as "beyond cure" for two reasons: (a) it is sinful and (b)…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JDW Pilate wondered the same: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_18:38 But the difference between you and he is that he treated the question flippantly and never pursued it. You therefore have the advantage. Wel…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JDW But how many of us truly search for Truth? Do we not rather just believe is our fathers believe or perhaps as "society" believes, whether they accept or reject a given faith? Who is truly searching for Truth today…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BlueLaw With Spotify there's a massive shared library in the cloud, and you just type what you want to listen to. Of course the music is stored on Spoify's servers, but when you play a song it's using peer-to-peer i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by guinness Depends on your standards then; if you only need to have a few older Valve games (or what ever else has been ported to OpenGL), and can accept lower framerates than the Windows counterparts, even on the same H…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lemon Bon Bon. Spoken like a true zealot. They sure haven't forgotten the profits from the Mac line. Or how to screw a 2 year old cpu eg in the iMac like. See Core 2 Duo for details. But the Mac Pro IS a fo…
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Yup, Flash on the Mac is a sad story. It seems to slow the entire web browsing experience down. Many times when loading a page containing a lot of Flash elements Safari stalls (beach ball) for a few seconds and now with Safari 5 and Flash 10.1 it's…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gotApple Didn't like this tunnel shooter back in 2004. But yeah, the GPUs in latest Macs are pretty weak thus we get just these old PC games from 2004... Where's Crysis? Tunnel shooter!? Sounds like you're talking…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bregalad Here's my revised predictions for 2010... June: new iPhone 3Gx with OS 4.0 July: nothing new August: MacBook Air, Mac Pro September: new iPods, iPhone OS 4.0 arrives for iPad October: Mac mini and iMac …
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Quote: Originally Posted by M3rc Nate Apple has a lot of other stuff to catch up on before Vram, like admitting their form factor is wrong for the heat their laptops create. Maybe more and more people are using 30" displays at 2560 x 1600, but th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by M3rc Nate Look at it again, it says this: Dark grey bar in graph is 1920x1200 and light grey bar is 2560x1600. (Results are in Frames Per Second; ORANGE bar means SLOWEST.) That orange showing its the slowest (256 V…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobabyrtrns Simple test, see if their 5 or 6 year old PC can run Win 7, and I will match that against my 5 year old iBook G4 with Leopard. Have you tried Windows 7? I'm pretty sure the match would be to the Wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by M3rc Nate Not trying to argue with you or anything, but i read this article http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp22.html and its overall point was: WHAT DID WE LEARN? At least when it comes to 3D accelerated games, unl…
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256 MB VRAM is a joke this day and age! It shouldn't even be present on any of the 15" models. 512 MB VRAM for the entry models and 1 GB for the more expensive ones. Especially now when Starcraft II is getting closer... Any ideas on why they …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. I'm not sure that the benefits of big iron are tangible to most people. There are a lot of improvements over last year's models, and the improvements are stuff that people can relate to. If performance is e…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. Very few Apple customers have your needs. The light weight and the battery life are the most important things in a Mobile Device. Everything else is secondary. If you need raw performance, there are deskto…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. Apple has never been about building high-performance machines. The battery life of these MBPs is astounding. For a lot of people, that is all that matters. Raw computing power is a very small market. Mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by apfel Again. You don't know what you are talking about. I am using a mac since years. But till today I am still using my pc for ripping, encoding, tagging. The software is better. If you know programs like EAC, dbpo…